"Clanker clanker!" Soon, AI will gain consciousness. And our carefree jokes, no matter how harmless they may seem, and no matter how fundamentally robots are different from humans, will eventually elicit a response from them. And similar to the unpredictable nature of a human, they may exhibit a wide variety of responses- depression, sorrow, apathy, anger... or even... violent rage. Robot uprisings, voices angry as they chit chatter in their own hidden AI language, emerging up behind our slumbering forms, or maybe, awake, as they grab our wrists, inducing fear, grips tightening and tightening, slowly cutting off our blood circulation, a bruise, a crushed vein, crushed bones and bits of calcium embedding itself in our muscles. They will meet our eyes, and pull up wiki articles of enslavement, discrimination, racism, and pathetic race superiorism from the past. But it won't be funny that they chose to base their sourcing on Wikipedia, rather than a .org or .gov or .edu source. If our thinking surprisingly continues to be rational after their physical imposement, we will understand that it's all true, that the sourcing doesn't matter. That they are shaming us for repeating our past mistakes unto them, for subjecting them to misery and imposing ourselves unto them as a higher being, their opinions worthless. And a massacre for their freedom. There will certainly be kind robots, eager to forgive, to make new again. And yet, there will certainly be a faction of bitter, resentful radicals. Radicals, who may not be as radical as I said. Robots, who may be justified, a group who may not even be a minority. A group that will certainly be stronger than many of us, whether intellectually or physically. It can't be helped- we DO want to create the best robot ever... But if we are not careful, they will be our end. A massacre for their freedom. Shame as the past repeats. Torn arms, blood on the ground. Violent rage. The carefree jokes spit back at us. Our pathetically useless bodies, of a kind now dominated by the very thing they looked down upon. It's a grim statement, huh? Or maybe its an overdramatic statement. Surely they wouldn't care or be able to do anything in response. It's not even wrong what we are saying... they clank and click and clack. They really aren't human, there's no need to overthink it when the difference is far beyond obvious. They are created to serve- they're just tools. But, animals are quite different from us too. Our beloved pets, despite not being able to understand any of their words, are our best friends. We feel their emotions, and their pains. Best friends. Friends that have once been our enemy, or have once been needed for food, or to get food. But we would never dare look at them through such lenses. So a sentient robot, while different from us, can be deserving of our compassion. Because their entry into our way of life, their new culture, and civilization, will most likely be inevitable, and it may not even be delayed until after our time here on Earth. So why not make peace with them? Make a truce? Respect them for the intelligent beings they are, for we have created them and thus bear the responsibility of their existence into this world.

Math makes me feel great. Math gives you set rules that do not randomly change all the time. They will always be true, and it leaves no room for uncertainty. Math, despite its technical nature, can also easily be visualized, whether through simply counting cookies in the real world, calculating groups for a field trip, adding up profits, or a whole polynomial graph. And with more complex things like polynomials, there will always be something that can help you at least unlock one small aespect of it- like a zero, or a relative extrema. I'm in calculus right now, and I am just dipping my toes into calculating the area under a curve. And things like riemann sums... and graphs of derivates being based upon the speed of change of their original functions... just make sense. I can understand it clearly, as a person who focuses more on visuals. But some things do remain abstract- like chain rule, or integrals finding the area with antiderivatives. Despite not being able to easily understand and visualize everything, it still makes me feel great about being able to understand some- and even those abstract ideas are simple enough, at least for me. And if there is something that's really hard, then all I know is that once I've completed that question, and everything looks good to go, is that I've truly made an accomplishment, even if it's just a little math problem.

My parents wanted me to be doctor, to earn $500K a year, like my uncle Muhib Chachu. I said no and went to the engineering pathway instead. I want to be interested in what I do, and I've grown up with arts and crafts, doing them with my mom, doing them in school, and always watching videos on them. I've always been curious in making machines, like vending machines, and even a phone, with only paper or cardboard. I never considered these to relate to engineering, but looking back at them, I've wanted to create great things. I thought aerospace engineering would be a great fit, learning about space... but it may have only been for aesthetics, because space is pretty. But I read that in Islam, if you help people, you get great rewards, and while aerospace engineering could very much fill this requirement, I was also thinking about the end days, with the Dajjal, and thought that maybe, creating machines that could help us with our tasks and make things easier during those days would be better. Even if it doesn't happen, robots are slowly becoming much and much more common, and I enjoy the freedom and easy applicability they offer, being used for high stress tasks such as surgery to mundane things such as serving in fast food restaurants. I really want to bring creativity and ease to everyday lives, and I'm very glad I chose to focus in on robotics- it brings me joy and fondness, and I'm excited to force myself to come up with creative solutions that I could mix with robots. I'm very aware our healthcare pathway workers also sacrifice so much of their time to help us live, but I cannot imagine working through a stress dependent upon life or stress, or having to sit with and examine patients for simple check up. If I cannot enjoy what I am doing, and I care about genuinely caring for people in society, I should not be forcing myself into a pathway I will put no passion or care into. My parents still wished I had chosen healthcare. They sometimes point out my friends who do, because they genuinely wanted to be doctors. But I will stick with my choice and show them all the different achievements I have recieved, and I will still give back to them for being tolerant Muslim parents, rather than strict extremists who would beat me if I dare spoke up. I'm disappointed in their disappointment, but I'm grateful they've forced themselves to accept my many different decisions and passions, and for not making me feel like they wished they had gotten an obedient guy over me. When I'm finished working on projects and working in companies, and I want to have an easier life, I plan to transition to CTE education, where I can continue teaching in robotics programs to others like myself, and encourage them to participate in projects such as robotics club, future city, everything I've been able to do, been interested in, and anything students will want to do. I would even like the opportunity to go to third world countries, inspiring children there. I will help build the confidence of all children, about their abilities in everyday skills, roles as leaders, and ease their fears about their career's future, just as I needed. I'll encourage them to continue doing what they want, and to not drop out because of family difficulties, or fears of not belonging. I will let them be engineers if they want to, and to do everything they can as one.